At 01:45 30/12/98 +1000, Ian Clayton wrote:
> Hi All! This is a combined list not bad for a bunch of no hopers.
> New Years Day 1999
Speak for yourself Clayton......!
>Site: Toonpan/Serpentine/Cromarty
>Period: 1/01/99 06:30 to 14:30
For those interested, Toonpan (Lagoon), Serpentine (Lagoon) and Cromarty
(Wetland) area are in the Northern Brigalow belt and lie in a 150km circuit
south of Townsville, NQ 19*19' south, 143* E. The first two are on private
property; Cromarty adjoins the Ramsar nominated/listed Cape Bowling Green
Bay. Access to the latter (Reed Beds Road) is currently difficult as the
road is partially under water.
>199 Magpie Goose Anseranas semipalmata 2000
>097 Little Black Cormorant Phalocrocorax sulcirostris 3000
>096 Great Cormorant Phalocrocorax carbo 2
>106 Australian Pelican Pelecanus conspicillatus 200
This was the biggest assemblage of lt black corms any of us had seen - they
were feeding in shallow water
>341 Black-eared Cuckoo Chrysococcyx osculans 1
A lifer for 6 of us
>333 White-rumped Swiftlet Collocalia spodiopygia 30
Mike tarburton please note
>319 Azure Kingfisher Alcedo azurea 1
>322 Laughing Kookaburra Dacelo novaeguineae 4
>323 Blue-winged Kookaburra Dacelo leachii 4
>324 Forest Kingfisher Todiramphus macleayii 2
>325 Red-backed Kingfisher Todiramphus pyrrhopygia 3
>326 Sacred Kingfisher Todiramphus sancta 4
possibly a breeding site for the red-backed.....
>693 White-winged Chough Corcorax melanorhamphos 6
these were nesting at Serpentine; the closest that we have known it to
Townsville. Perhaps David James will correct me or confirm that?
> Total: 8014 birds of 107 species
>
>Ian Clayton
>& Bush Tours
> 4810 Phone: 07 47 216 489
>Email:
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Alex Appleman
Townsville
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